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I've got some marinepoxy left over from my last project. Is this a good choice for the majority of the work we will be doing? With the addition of some wood flour and silica in select places of course.

absolutely, this type of work is exactly what it was formulated to do

Hey peter, we are normally fishing deeper than 200 meters. Use pieces about the size of a sushi roll, it gets swallowed easier, the squid heads are the best they stay on hook better. There must be something out there!

Very cool bertram! I would love to have something like that with a small second station in the cockpit

that is a fact

be careful, yikes. I personally have not noticed any more or less effect of EMC vs awlgrip or sterling, but I know if you get enough exposure to any of these paints you can become very sick. A friend of mine's dad had a violent reaction to too much awlgrip at once, he thought he was going to die, bu...

yep, the foam brushes leave a relatively "flat" coating. You can even cut a section out of a west system foam roller cover and use it as a brush. I got that idea from one of the old West System booklets.

Not sure if you remember by you gave me a little advise on epoxy for a walnut headboard not too long back. I do remember! You do very nice work 8) I just did not recognize the screen name For the sanding 36 grit or so for most of the cleanout? That will work, I use the most aggressive thing I can f...

1) for the grinding and prep has anyone tried/used the Festool RAS115? If so what are the most effective pads. I use their equipment pretty extensively in my woodworking and have always been happy with my purchases. This is all taking place in my workshop and I'd like as much as possible to keep th...

many people use the bakers icing bags as well. I like the tubes because I can make a really nice even bead and do it super fast. many ways to do this, none are wrong.

Is it possible to build a FS14 using the scored type of construction foam using the same process as you would with marine ply? Only reason I ask is because it would be way easier and less time consuming than cutting the foam into strips and doing it that way. what foam? Do you have a link or descri...